Brocade Awarded Product of the Year at France's Largest Storage Conference, Forum Stockage
Tuesday October 21, 8:22 am ET
End User Panel Selects Brocade SilkWorm 12000 Director in Storage Networking Hardware Category
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD - News), the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced today that it has been awarded Best Product of the Year at France's leading storage conference, Forum Stockage. A panel of SAN end users selected the enterprise-class Brocade SilkWorm® 12000 Director as Product of the Year in the storage area networking category.
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Forum Stockage is the largest storage industry conference in France, and one of the largest storage events in Europe. This year's conference was held October 8 to 10 in Paris, France.
"We are pleased that the SilkWorm 12000 Director was awarded Product of the Year, selected by end user customers who are responsible for implementing highly reliable enterprise storage environments," said Ian Whiting, Brocade Vice President EMEA Sales. "The SilkWorm 12000 Director provides the storage networking foundation for many of the world's largest enterprise SANs, delivering the highest levels of availability, scalability, and security."
The SilkWorm 12000 Director, supporting up to 128 ports of connectivity, is a highly reliable and intelligent solution for deploying SANs in mission-critical enterprise environments, enabling end users to scale storage more effectively, support continuous data availability, and reduce the overall cost of storage management. The Brocade SilkWorm 12000 Director offers ultra-high availability with no single points of failure, redundant and hot-pluggable components, non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and activation), and also provides FICON® support for IBM mainframe environments, enabling end users to standardize their SAN infrastructure across mainframe and open systems platforms.
Brocade Fabric OS, the embedded operating system included in the SilkWorm 12000 Director, provides Advanced Fabric Services -- such as ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, and Advanced Zoning -- that are designed to improve the investment protection, security, performance, scalability, and efficiency of Brocade SAN fabrics. Brocade also offers enhanced SAN security through Secure Fabric OS®, the industry's first fabric-based security for SANs, which combines the proven security and access control features of IP networking with the unique security requirements of SANs. Secure Fabric OS provides centralized management of SAN security policies for management and device access, helping to ensure more predictable change management, assured configuration integrity, and reduced risk of downtime due to intentional intrusion or simple human error. |
